Company

About Zingbox

Even by conservative estimates, over 20 billion connected devices are expected to be in use by the year 2020. Unfortunately, such promise of innovation and growth has been accompanied by concerns of visibility, vulnerability, and service disruptions – the same concerns that traditional IT security solutions cannot address. That is why Zingbox was founded.

At Zingbox, we recognize that to realize the full benefit of IoT devices requires a revolutionary approach to security. Rather than being handcuffed by traditional IT security philosophy, we designed an IoT security solution from the ground up specifically to secure IoT environments. Our solution is non-intrusive, clientless, cloud-based, and out-of-band. These features are not simply the benefits of our solution – they are the underlying principle.

Our goal is not just to secure IoT devices but to enable the Internet of Trusted Things.

Leadership

Xu has held executive positions in multiple successful networking and security start-ups. Before starting Zingbox in 2014, Xu was senior director of Aerohive Networks, where he launched Aerohive’s cloud-based Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) security product. Prior to Aerohive, Xu was senior director of Aruba Networks, where he managed Aruba’s industrial and carrier product line. Xu joined Aruba through the acquisition of Azalea Networks, where Xu was a founding member and the VP of Software. Before Azalea networks, Xu was a senior engineer at Airespace, acquired by Cisco in 2005. Xu has an Executive MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University and B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. Xu also holds ten international patents on security and networking.

Dr. May Wang is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-founder of Zingbox, a Gartner Cool Vendor in Internet of Things (IoT) Security. May was previously a Principal Architect in the Cisco CTO office driving new technology initiatives, especially IoT. Her algorithms have been deployed in many of Cisco’s best-selling products. May also serves on the advisory boards of multiple VC firms and tech companies.

May has been the recipient of numerous awards including Silicon Valley Women of Influence, Female CxO Trailblazers Award, and several Stevie Awards. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering.

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Jianlin ZengVP of Engineering & Co-founder

Jianlin has over 15 years of experience building engineering teams and launching successful products in networking, cloud, and security. Read more.

Jianlin has over 15 years of experience building engineering teams and launching successful products in networking, cloud, and security. Prior to founding Zingbox in 2014, Jianlin was a Principal Architect and a founding member of the Aerohive Networks engineering team. He holds multiple patents on wireless and networking. Jianlin has an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California and an Undergraduate degree from the University of Science and Technology of China.

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Mayuresh EktareVP of Product Management

Mayuresh, part of the founding team at Zingbox, is a product management and user experience leader... Read more.

Mayuresh, part of the founding team at Zingbox, is a product management and user experience leader with deep expertise in enterprise security, networking, and cloud. Prior to Zingbox, he played an instrumental role in shaping the cloud-managed unified networking solution at Aerohive Networks. Before Aerohive, Mayuresh held several leadership positions at Trend Micro and brought to market enterprise security solutions for web, email, network virtualization, and cloud security. He has a passion for simplifying the complex. Mayuresh holds a Masters’ degree in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and an Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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David EngelVP of Worldwide Sales

Dave has been involved in technology sales in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. He has built and led successful teams in both direct... Read more.

Dave has been involved in technology sales in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. He has built and led successful teams in both direct and channel sales organizations. Prior to Zingbox, Dave served as the Chief Revenue Officer at DataEndure where he was responsible for the go to market strategy and execution for the company. Dave also led a global team at NetApp responsible for the sales and services coverage of strategic financial services accounts, growing the business over tenfold during his tenure. He has also held sales and leadership positions at Alcatel and Oracle.

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John YunHead of Marketing

John is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in networking security, cloud services, and telecommunication. Read more.

John is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in networking security, cloud services, and telecommunication. As Head of Marketing at Zingbox, John drives all aspect of Zingbox’s marketing strategies and execution in the IoT security space.

Prior to Zingbox, John led the product marketing initiatives for Palerra in the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) industry and continued his efforts as part of Oracle following its acquisition of Palerra. John had also led the marketing efforts for Blue Coat Cloud/SaaS security business, drove the marketing strategy for Websense DLP and Web security solutions, and led the marketing team for Juniper Networks security business unit.

John has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Investors

At Dell Technologies Capital we are company builders with the mission of helping founders and their teams develop innovative technology solutions and bring them to market. We are active investors, sustaining an investment pace of approximately $100 million a year. As the global investment arm for the Dell Technologies family of businesses (Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and VMware), Dell Technologies Capital offers deep business and technical expertise and unparalleled go-to-market assistance to our portfolio companies. After operating in stealth for 5 years, the firm emerged publicly in 2017. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Dell Technologies Capital currently has offices in Boston and Israel. For more information visit www.delltechnologies.com/capital.

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Triventures is a venture capital fund that invests in disruptive medical device and digital health companies that impact the quality and cost of healthcare. Triventures supports ventures in areas such as big data, artificial intelligence and cyber security for healthcare as well as medical device companies in the fields of cardiovascular, orthopedics, robotics and ophthalmology. The fund is based in Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley and has strong partnerships with medical device manufacturers, healthcare providers and consumer electronics companies which enable it to contribute significant value to its portfolio companies when commercially integrating into markets. Among Triventures’ notable strategic investors are Medtronic, Abbott, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson, Cardinal Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

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GSR Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests primarily in early and growth stage technology companies that have very large market opportunities, strong management teams and disruptive intellectual property, business models or market positions that will give them a competitive advantage to successfully compete in the global market.

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Envision Ventures was founded by entrepreneurs who launched successful companies dedicated to changing the world. Envision takes a long-term view of financing. As an independent evergreen fund, with no end-of-fund life date, Envision helps entrepreneurs avoid many of the conflicts typical in the venture industry.

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Oriza Ventures is a venture capital fund that primarily invests in early stage technological companies in the United States. Oriza seeks to back talented entrepreneurs with emerging, innovative, and disruptive technological pursuits, or creative business ideas. We pride ourselves in our long-term approach to investment, and we invest in the entrepreneurs who deeply understand their market, are passionate about their product, and have the drive to cultivate their businesss towards success.

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The Stanford-StartX Fund (SSF), co-founded in September 2013 by StartX, Stanford University, and Stanford Health Care, has invested over $98 million in 200+ StartX companies. SSF is available only to StartX companies with a Stanford-affiliated founder and is structured to be extremely founder-friendly.

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Board of Directors

Raman Khanna

Raman Khanna is Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads strategic investments in support of VMware and Dell-EMC’s... Read more.

Raman Khanna is Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads strategic investments in support of VMware and Dell-EMC’s Networking Group. Raman’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in Multi-cloud infrastructure, Software Defined Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, and Management & Orchestration.

Prior to joining EMC Ventures (now Dell Technologies Capital) in 2013, Raman spent 16 years at Stanford University IT in various roles including the Chief Information Officer responsible for IT infrastructure as well as both Academic and Business Systems for the University. During that time he served on CIO Advisory Boards of many leading companies including Cisco, Dell and Microsoft.

Raman co-founded Diamondhead Ventures in 2000 and led the firm’s investments in Cavium Networks (IPO: CAVM), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco Systems), PassMark Security (acquired by RSA Security/EMC) and Orative (acquired by Cisco Systems). When Diamondhead Ventures merged with ONSET Ventures in 2007, Raman served as the Managing Director focused on Information Technology investments.

Raman has 20 years of operating experience and 18 years of investment experience in information technology. He was named on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 dealmakers in 2008 and 2009 and has been involved in many start-ups that had exits valued at over $1 billion. Raman is one of the early charter members of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), the world’s largest non-profit organization for entrepreneurs, and is the contributing editor of four technical books.

Raman holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He earned his undergraduate degree from Delhi College of Engineering, India, where he studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Raman represents Dell Technologies Capital on boards of following companies:

Richard Lim is a founding Managing Director of GSR Ventures where he is currently focused on early-stage investments... Read more.

Richard Lim is a founding Managing Director of GSR Ventures where he is currently focused on early-stage investments applying Artificial Intelligence to large verticals like healthcare/life sciences, finance, manufacturing, social and e-commerce. His past investments include Qunar (NASDAQ: QUNR), LightinTheBox (NYSE: LITB), Baixing (NEEQ: 836012), Baihe (NEEQ: 834214), AdChina, and FunPlus. Richard’s recent investments include Xiaohongshu, Counect, M-DAQ, ZingBox, and Deep 6 Analytics. Richard received an M.B.B.S from National University of Singapore and an MBA from Stanford University (Arjay Miller Scholar). He previously worked on health policy at the Ministry of Health in Singapore and was director of finance, administration, and operations at National University Hospital of Singapore.

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Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas has been at the forefront of the network and security technology industries, and brings more than 25 years... Read more.

Robert Thomas has been at the forefront of the network and security technology industries, and brings more than 25 years of executive experience creating, building, and managing profitable enterprise technology businesses. Most recently, Robert served as President and CEO for global network control company Infoblox (NYSE: BLOX), and prior to that, he served as President and CEO of NetScreen Technologies, a network security company. He joined both companies in the very early stages and took them both public. Earlier in his career, Robert held a variety of senior management positions at Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, and ICL.